102 INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Lambs, method of weaning, 204, 205, 213, 214. 



feeding of, 205, 208, 212, 214. 



statements as to increase of weight of, in a given time, 208, 215. 

 Leaves of beers, 400, 402. 

 Lessons of experience, 43, 4G, 48, 51, 257, 277. 

 Liquid manures, application of, 51, 60, 314. 

 Live-stock, statistics of, 12, 27, 29, 30. 

 Longevity of farmers, 73, 92. 



Manure, making and use of, 50, 58-60, 66-68, 271, 345, 353, 407. 



Marl, composition of, 313. 



Massachusetts, vital statistics of, 73, 76. 



Milk-mirror, selecting cows by the, 177, 180, 183, 191, 193. 



Milk, premium on the best experiment to ascertain the cost of, 404. 



to ascertain the value of skim, for swine, 404. 

 Molasses, beet-sugar, 395, 396. 

 Mussel-bed mud, analysis of, 339. 

 My farm experience, lecture on, 43, 56, 257, 267, 277. 



Nitrates or Chili saltpetre, 307, 314. 



Nitrogenous constituents of feeding-substances, 223, 228, 232. 



Oleomargarine better than pure butter, 141. 

 Ovals in the escutcheon, 189, 191. 



Pear, chemical analysis of the, 366. 



Peat as a fertilizer, 337. 



Pits, sugar-beets preserved in, 389. 



Pleuro-pneumonia, danger of, 39, 41. 



Ploughing, process of, 264, 265, 381. 



Potasb-salts, analysis of, as fertilizers, 310, 312. 



Poudrette, examination of, 336. 



Profits of live-stock, 18, 20, 214. 



Pulp of the sugar-beet, value of, 392, 397, 399. 



Pailway freights, discrimination in, 35, 138, 140. 

 Refuse of glue and soap factories, 336. 

 Rhode Island Greening, sugar in the, 366. 

 Eockweed, analysis of, 337, 339. 

 Eowen hay for cows, 122, 205, 213. 



Salt-marshes, improvement of, 290, 292. 



Salt, use of, on hay, 264. 



Sand as an absorbent in manures, 59, 61, 64, 70. 



Science contributions of, to farming, 222, 224, 226, 229, 232, 345. 



Seaweed, chemical examinations of, 338, 339. 



Seed, importance of changing, 54. 



Sheep and lambs, the care of, 13, 202, 210, 216. 



manner of feeding, 206, 208, 221. 



method of fattening, 205, 210. 

 Sheep-growing in Franklin County, 12, 15. 



profits of, 214, 215. 

 Shorthorns, 13, 96, 109, 121. 

 Silos, value of corn-fodder from, 256. 

 Sire, importance of, in breeding, 19, 100, 109, 192, 198. 

 Size of sugar-beets for sugar-making, 384, 386, 391, 407. 

 Slade, Avery P., my farming experience, 43, 57. 



